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Tex-Mix Concrete in expansion mode in and around Austin, Texas

The company’s 88 mixer trucks are a common site along I-35 and Texas 130, delivering TxDOT- and city-approved mixes for construction projects from seven plants. The company has two new concrete plants under construction to keep up with demand.

January 29, 2015

‘Truck of the year’ goes severe-duty, vocational in 2015

ATD’s program this year recognizes these nominees: the International WorkStar 7600, Kenworth T880 with Paccar MX-13 engine and the Peterbilt Model 567.

December 17, 2014

ATD Truck of the year 2015

High, wide and heavy: Crane haul brokered by Next Exit its biggest to date

DeSoto, Texas-based broker Next Exit Logistics earlier this year arranged a move that ranks as the biggest in its history — a 100-ton Manitowoc crane, hauled from Texas to Virginia.

September 25, 2014

ATK Oilfield Transportation puts KW C500s to the test

Take this pictorial tour through the fleet of 65 Kenworth C500s that powers ATK Oilfield Transportation, providing oil rig moving services throughout Western Canada and Texas.

September 18, 2014

ATK specs its largest-bed Kenworth C500s with tandem steer axles and tandem drive axles, Cummins ISX15 600-hp engines, Allison automatic transmissions and four-speed auxiliaries. Steer axles are Dana’s 22,000-lb.-capacity axles, and 90,000-lb. Kessler axles undergird the rear.

Photos: Modified Mack Granite ‘mast truck’ moors new Goodyear blimp

The Granite was ordered as a three-axle model but was modified by Engineered Chassis Systems, a subsidiary of the Nuss Group, which built the body, converted it to an all-wheel-drive 8×8 and installed the twin steer axles.

September 9, 2014

Mack Granite_Goodyear 2 (800×572)

Kenworth T880 riding boost in vocational demand

Kenworth reports a year-over-year sales increase for vocational trucks, particularly its new T880 flagship, reflecting growing construction activity, increased oil and gas production and encouraging new housing starts figures.

July 25, 2014

The Gorham, Maine-based Shaw Brothers Construction company is continuing to grow, and that’s going to help keep its new 400-ton per hour Astec asphalt plant, and 200 employees, busy. Shaw Brothers is operating 12 new Kenworth T880 dump trucks and tractors, which have been in service since April of 2014.

661,000 lbs.: Now that’s heavy haul!

These pictures tell the story of the equipment used to haul a massive steam turbine generator and other equipment from California to Agua Prieta in Mexico — the move in process by Contractors Cargo.

April 28, 2014

Contractors Cargo 1 (800×533)

Navistar stresses vocational commitment

The company refined SCR transition schedules and introduced new vocational options — and the TerraStar bagged work truck of the year awards.

March 7, 2014

The International WorkStar

Severe-duty updates from Freightliner

Through March 8, Freightliner highlights some of its toughest vocational solutions at the 2014 ConExpo-Con/Agg show in Las Vegas; new vocational options introduced, also, at the NTEA Work Truck Show.

March 6, 2014

The 2013 Kling Towing and Recovery 122SD with wrecker body was among winners at Overdrive‘s Pride and Polish event last year in Florida.

Kenworth T880 vocational model available for order

Kenworth’s T880 flagship vocational model is suitable for heavy haul, refuse, dump, mixer and other applications. Find a gallery of images of the model, and more detail, in this story.

October 31, 2013

Natural gas payoff: Utility, ROI in construction trucking apps

While natural gas engines and retrofits are not cheap, the key question is your return on investment. Does it pay to run a truck or a fleet on natural gas?

May 29, 2013

Freightliner’s Cascadia 113 natural gas daycab is outfitted with a 12-liter Cummins ISX12 engine and can run on either CNG or LNG.

New Dana axle, driveshafts

At the ATA’s Technology and Maintenance Council annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn., Dana introduced new Spicer axles, driveshafts.

March 11, 2013

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